Month: June 2011

I have the privilege of belonging to a close-knit writing community. This is awesome. I suggest you find a writing community and join it too, because they are invaluable in many ways. What I have found, though, is sometimes things

I belong to a prompt community. I joined, oh, four years ago or so with the idea that I’d be able to use the prompts to stir the creative juices. It hasn’t really worked out. Oh, it’s not the community’s

My mother recently read Leviathan and Behemoth (books 1 and 2 of the Leviathan Trilogy) by Scott Westerfeld. For those who haven’t read them (and you should) they are kind of an odd mix of steampunk and alternative history. But

Can’t talk, have Australians. (I love to say this, people’s first reaction is almost always complete befuddlement.) Blogging shall resume with Friday’s post, but to tie you over, here’s a picture of a landsquid and a turtleduck.

Early on in this blog, I wrote a post wondering what the deal was with short stories, why everyone insisted on telling you to write them when they do not prepare you for novel-writing (and vice versa), and whether or not

Tada! 100 posts! Not too shabby for me and the Landsquid. In celebration, I give you the top 5 posts thus far: Collaborative Writing – Characters Outlining Writing with a Partner – Collaborative Editing What Would You Put on a

Ah, summer. I love it yet I hate it, because I don’t really function above 85 degrees and I burn easily, but I love the blue skies and the flowers and the afternoon thunderstorms (provided I am not out in

You know how sometimes you watch some sort of movie (or read a book) and things just keep going wrong, and you think “This would never happen in real life.” Yeeeaaaahhh. Normally I don’t like to deviate from reading/writing/landsquids, but

Let’s say you’re walking along, minding your own business, when BAM a story idea waylays you. It’s interesting, it’s fun, it has all the information you need to sit down and get going. Let us also assume that you are